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From a pint-sized Solid Snake to the Mother of Dragons herself, these statues stole the show at NYCC.

Get a closer look at XM Studios’ incredible line of Justice League and Batman statues from NYCC.

IGN can exclusively reveal that Disney Junior’s The Rocketeer, an animated series inspired by Dave Stevens’ comic book and the 1991 Disney film of the same name, will premiere on Friday, November 8, 2019, on Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and DisneyNOW.

Disney Junior’s The Rocketeer features “a young girl named Kit Secord, who takes to the skies to protect her community after becoming the surprise recipient of a rocket-pack that gives her the ability to fly.”

The Rocketeer stars A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Kitana Turnbull as Kit Secord, with Billy Campbell and Kathy Najimy voicing her parents, Dave and Sareena Secord. Rocketeer fans will know that Campbell previously played Cliff Secord, the protagonist of 1991’s The Rocketeer.

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When you look at Afterparty, Night School Studio’s newest game due out later this October, one has to wonder how a fledgling indie studio goes from a game about teenagers on a mysterious island to a game about drinking your way out of Hell. As developer Sean Krankel puts it on this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, the idea for Afterparty definitely involved a bit of drinking and cemetery exploration.

“There’s a cemetery called Forest Lawn across from our studio,” Krankel explains. “It’s massive. Anyone who’s been to LA knows, it’s like three miles across. So everybody is buried there. We’ll walk over there and brainstorm sometimes.

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Not much time has passed since “Hunted” played out in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, raising the question of whether the series really needs to be embroiled in another major crossover event so soon. The events of Absolute Carnage have spilled over into Spidey’s flagship comic. Though as it turns out, writer Nick Spencer and artist Ryan Ottley focus much more on furthering their own ends than on expanding on the events of Absolute Carnage itself. Maybe that’s not ideal for readers who only jumped on board for the duration of the crossover, but it’s great news for long-term readers.

As with issue #30, Amazing Spider-Man #31 follows a flashback-within-a-flashback format for the majority of the story. Spidey’s present-day clash with a Carnage-ified Norman Osborn is basically just a framing device. Again, you’re not going to get much on the Absolute Carnage front you’re not already seeing in the pages of the core series. But on the plus side, this issue offers vital new insight into the true nature of Kindred and a welcome chance to revisit the classic Stan Lee/John Romita era of Amazing Spider-Man.

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It’s October, the spookiest month of the year. To help you get in the proper mindset, LEGO has a Hidden Side line of building sets with a ghoulish theme. They look reasonably normal at first, but each set has a haunted side. On top of that, you can download an AR app that lets you play games that interact with the finished sets. Best of all, most of the Hidden Side sets are currently on sale for a limited time. Let’s take a look.

LEGO Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High School

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NXT‘s move to the USA Network from the streaming service the WWE Network certainly boosted its profile to a mainstream audience. What used to be the “best kept secret in WWE” is now on a global stage. Leading the way on the Wednesday night program is the stable Undisputed Era, a take-charge group made up of Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong, Bobby Fish, and its leader, Adam Cole.

Wrestling stables aren’t as prevalent as they used to be, like during the ’90s when everyone seemed to be a part of a large group, both fans and Cole still find wrestlers joining forces an important part of wrestling. “They’re so, so important,” Cole explained to GameSpot while promoting WWE 2K20. “I’m glad you brought that up because there’s something to a group of people–or even a group of individuals coming together and forming a faction–our fans just latched themselves onto. I mean you’ve seen it time and time again what a group gets together. People just embrace it. They love that unity and team feeling. It’s really cool.

“When a stable it’s done correctly, it’s so important. It’s so huge. It opens up so many different stories that that roster can tell. So many different scenarios that guys can go. It just keeps things very fresh and different. Like you can do a million different tag matches, but at the same time, we’re individuals. Obviously I’m NXT Champion, so I’m going to have a bunch of NXT Championship title defenses, but then the next week we can do a wild eight man tag team match with all of us.

“But I think the big thing for those factions or those groups succeeding is obviously everyone needs to have chemistry and click. With me, Rowdy, Bobby and Kyle, we’ve known each other for 10 years. I was in Kyle O’Reilly’s wedding; I was at Roderick Strong’s wedding. We talk every single day. So I think that kind of translates on screen, and I think that’s a big reason that the fans have really taken to the Undisputed Era.”

With NXT now airing on Wednesdays on the USA Network, more casual WWE fans have been introduced to the Undisputed Era. “We are so focused on making sure that an NXT is just the hottest brand in pro wrestling,” Cole continued. “I’m so proud of the group, that we’ve gotten this far and we ended up on the USA network and I want to stay here, and make sure I’m a part of this wild ride that NXT is on. But you know, of course, eventually someday, the Undisputed Era on Raw or Smackdown just creates a whole bunch of new situations for us, which would really exciting for us and the fans I think.”

Even though the eventual future for this team means heading to Monday or Friday night WWE programming, don’t expect the group to grow. There won’t be a NWO situation with Undisputed Era where the group gets bloated with everyone joining. “As far as adding new people, no, I actually think it’s very important,” continued Cole. “I remember when it was me, Bobby, and Kyle at first. We were convinced it was just going to be the three of us, and then it was brought to us about Roderick Strong joining all of us. At the same time, we’re like, ‘man…’ [but] if anyone’s going to join us, he’s the perfect fit. And now that he’s there, we can’t imagine anyone else being involved either. So I think it’s going to stay with just the four of us. But again, it’s pro wrestling. Never say never.”

You can see Adam Cole and the rest of the Undisputed Era on NXT on Wednesdays at 8 PM on USA. Additionally, you can check out Adam Cole’s entrance for WWE 2K20 above, and that game launches for Xbox One, PS4, and PC on October 22.